CNCO Gives Us the Scoop on #GrowingUpLatino

What does growing up Latino mean for you? It probably means something slightly different as individuals, but as a LatinX community, there’s a plethora of commonalities (ie. music, things you ate during the holidays, etc.) despite differences in nationality. Billboard invites CNCO, Latin America’s hottest quintet, to talk about what it’s like #GrowingUpLatino.

For many of the boys, it’s all about the food: Richard recalls eating plantains with a bunch of cheese while Zabdiel looks back at all the white rice with hot dogs and ketchup that he ate during Christmas, one of his favorite holidays of the year. Christopher holds fond memories of both his parents and grandparents’ cooking, and Joel reminisces his abuela‘s big house parties. For Erick, it’s all about the stuffed chicken with ham and cheese (and I’m drooling while I write about this already).

Considering the level of testosterone in the band, there was still room for some telenovela (soap operas) love. Joel, being the most culturally American band member of the group, admits that he learned to improve his Spanish through watching telenovelas.